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Does Windows virtual machine crash due to low RAM? (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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I installed Windows 11 in Virtual Box in case I need it for school but it keeps crashing. My laptop is 12gb RAM and I gave the VM 8gb RAM.

If I upgrade my laptop RAM to maybe 16gb and give the VM 12gb RAM would that help? Thanks I'm a newb

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[–] 5 points 1 year ago

I'm also virtualizing windows with kvm/qemu and my laptop's got 16 G of RAM; I gave the host and the guest 8 GB each and sometimes windows crashes when I'm doing memory intensive stuff on the linux(host) side. (video-rendering, heavy image editing, etc. It once crashed while running a python script with selenium)

The guest is windows 10 and it triples the host memory usage while idle.

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